Something I never want to see again...

[Roger, Roger]

I remember when I was teaching 141 we really didn't get to do a lot of night flights in their private pilot training. I always tried my hardest to train on a new moon to really drive planning and situation awareness at night into them. Worked quite well, I had one student get lucky and get a full moon night. Unfortunately he didn't quite get the point when he could see every road and every field. Still teach: Cars = Ground Based Landing Lights.... aim for the red, watch where the white is going.

Yeah... Around here you really just don't go at night unless a. It's a clear, preferably moonlit night or b. You're ready to do the whole thing IFR. It gets scary dark once you're more than a few miles from civilization. Also, if something happens to you at night in crappy weather you stand a good chance of being on the wrong side of the USCGs go/no go matrix, at least until daylight.

 

[tomokc]

1. The sky above you. 2. The runway behind you. 3. The fuel you left in the truck.

 

[J_Hammastyx]

Tat sucks, glad theyre ok.

 

[ChasenSFO]

Damn dude, I've been lucky so far not to see anything like that. I've flown over HWD to check out a crashed KingAir a few years back, but I didn't see it happen and the pilot(only person onboard) got out ok.